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Snazziness, ho!
5 years ago
So, it turns out that the one time the site decides to have problems with thumbnails, I happen to find a wonderful little secret to making much better-looking thumbnails. I ended up replacing all of my old ones (thank the Gods, I like Times New Roman, but it made me look like a shit-tier artist) and I hope to keep using it for new ones, at least while I'm using the free trial for it. Do let me know what you think! They actually show up at full resolution on Inkbunny, so I promise they look a little better and more read-able there, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about that here.
Cheers, Ben
Cheers, Ben
A few remarks:
- You can easily make a template yourself, even GIMP is a free editor, unlike Photoshop!
- Contrasting, white on white, or dark on dark, when viewed on mobile, is a bit of a problem. I guess you'd want a more bolded, serif font that is more readable, maybe outlines for them.
- Your links on your profile are mangled, paste only your username in them, ex. for what they now do: http://www.inkbunny.net/https://ink.....y.net/BenRiote
I'm actually a long-time fiddler with gimp (which, incidentally, happens to be what I used to create my old ones. 300 pixels isn't much to slap text onto), but I tend to use it more for occasional black-and-white comic coloring or photo-filtering, but admittedly canva has proven to be pretty simple for making some fancier thumbnails, albeit their tools are limited. As for the contrasting, for the most part I tried that, but in hindsight the Azerothians could've probably used a different background. The black text didn't look good on the gray I'd chosen. I hadn't even considered how they might look on mobile, admittedly, but I'm honestly not sure what I could do with that sort of tiny resolution outside going back to the old ones. I'll have to do some fiddling with them.